Nurse Practitioner -Psychiatric

Posted Date
8 months ago(9/26/2017 3:28 PM)

Job ID

2017-5699

Job Category

Advanced Practice Provider

Job Type

Part-Time

Shift

First Shift

# of Openings

2

Overview

The APP is a provider of direct health care services who synthesizes and utilizes evidence based practice, research and current clinical knowledge. Working in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team. The APP demonstrates an advanced level of medical and nursing knowledge, clinical and technical competence, sound clinical judgment, professionalism as it relates to interpersonal and general communication skills, timely and complete documentation and takes responsibility for ongoing professional development and competency validation. The APP role in partnership with supervising/collaborating physician(s) s includes history taking, clinical assessment, and physical examination, and order entry, interpretation of diagnostic studies, clinical diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care for the given population. Provides advanced evidenced based clinical psychiatric evaluations, clinical diagnosis and medication management recommendations within an outpatient clinic setting or via Tele-Consults to meet the needs of this population.

Responsibilities & Requirements

Required skills include but are not limited to the following:

Ability to communicate and relate well with staff, physician(s) and the public

Must have awareness of patient confidentiality and be able to follow directions well from physician and work autonomously with little direction

Demonstrates assessment skills, diagnosis with critical thinking and implementation of a plan of care.

Professional Role- skill includes clinical reasoning and builds collaborative intra and interprofessional relationships to provide optimal care to patients with complex acute, critical and chronic illness. Skill of advocating on the behalf of the patient population and the profession through active participation in the health policy process.

Managing and Negotiating Healthcare Delivery Systems - skill in addressing the development and implementation of system policies affecting services